Slide projector2/3/2024 ![]() – All four Carousel projectors I’ve been using seem to be working well. I did have to use a rocket/squeeze bulb to blow dust off of the diffuser and over the slides in the trays for good measure though. Either put into trays 40 years ago, or stored in their processing boxes 40 years ago… D Some of them did have some bad dust issues, but i was more concerned about quantity and didn’t clean them. – Most of the slides i was capturing were well stored. No problem though… I just adjusted the macro/focus manually before a few runs… (after changing the battery in the camera… i don’t have a power brick for it either) Since i was using an old non-AI lens, as well as a non-AI 2x converter, autofocus was not even on the table. My final results were at f/22, f/11, f/8… around that range depending on the slide. I’ve very strongly considered hacking in wires to the shutter button. And its only interface is IR for remote triggering. ![]() – I would have used a wired control, but the D70 is all I have. Posted in digital cameras hacks Tagged 35 mm, photographic slide, slide carousel, slide digitizer Post navigation If you’ve misplaced your projector however, a simple 3D-printed slide adapter for your camera also works for small slide decks. plans to make the software and STL files available on GitHub soon, so anyone can go ahead and turn their projector into a digitizer. The light, camera and carousel motor are all controlled through a central user interface driven by an Arduino Leonardo which can automatically advance the carousel and instruct the camera to take a picture, thereby taking the hard work out of digitizing huge stacks of slides. The carousel’s original light source was replaced with a compact LED studio light, which allows for precise brightness control and of course remains nice and cool compared to the original incandescent bulb. The adapter also holds an IR transmitter which is aimed at the camera’s receiver, in order to trigger its remote shutter release function. The attachment is made through a 3D-printed adapter that fits onto the Nikon’s macro lens on one side and slides snugly into the carousel’s lens slot on the other. made a setup to directly connect a DLSR, in this case a Nikon D70, to a Kodak 760 slide carousel. If you’ve also kept your projector then this doesn’t even have to be that difficult, as shows in his latest project. Nowadays you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone willing to set up a screen and darken the room just to watch a few photos, so if you still have any slides lying around you’ll probably want to digitize them. The wobbly screen being unrolled, the darkened room, the soft hum of the projector’s fan, the slightly grainy picture on the screen and that unmistakable click-whoosh-clack sound as the projector loaded the next slide. If you’re above a certain age, you probably remember the atmosphere of a pre-Powerpoint 35 mm slide show.
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